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Arrived for the first pint of the day just before noon but it wasn't open so popped in for our last beer before our train home. Good range of beer, with a ruby mild! It wasn't reasonably busy with a jam session taking place. Friendly and welcoming.
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I believe this pub only opens in the evening at weekends. I arrived around 8pm to find it already very busy with standing room only. It is small. So I'd like to bet it gets rammed when live bands are playing. The interior is dark and filled with pictures of pigs and pig-related ephemera. The clientele was mixed - students mixed with some serious drinkers. Ales were Moonshine Cambridge Pale Ale & Night Watch Porter, Crouch Vale Brewer's Gold, Dark Star American Pale Ale & Adnams Lighthouse. This one is not too far from the station. So it's handy if you have time before a train.
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Still going strong, still as good as ever. There is something I find hard to define about what I see as the ideal English pub (George Orwell made a pretty god stab at summing up his idea of the perfect pub in his essay The Moon Under Water), but this booozer pretty much ticks most of the boxes for my choice.
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Can't really add to the last review. Bit surprised to see it as local pub of the year morea campaigning gesture than a view on beer quality, but that was to be fair pretty good and the range looked well chosen (Hop Back, Crouch Vale). A lovely little pub, particularly if you can get a window seat.
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I think (and hope) the future of this pub is secure. Certainly all my recent visits (admittedly always in the couple of hours after the end of work) have found it bustling with a young to middle-aged clientèle. It may come across as somewhat contrived - rather dark and lit mainly be candles on the tables - but actually it seems to work. People talking away, sampling a range of 5-6 beers including some slightly uncommon beers drawn mainly from local brewers. It does stand out as an isolated older building amongst new development but that is part of the charm. This pub is maybe not quite of the standard of the cluster of establishments near Mill Road (Live & Let Live, Cambridge Blue, Kingston Arms, Devonshire Arms & increasingly the Alexandra) but this is a well above-average pub and a good option for a before or after-show beer at the Junction (just across the bridge to the south)
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Hogshead: yes, very much so, despite renewed threats from evil developers. I'm guessing from the date of you rcomment that you tried it on a Saturday afternoon: it only opens in the evenings at weekends.
Now free of Punch, at least, and serving beers from local breweries.
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Is this pub still open.
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This is a superb pub; lovely and cosy and welcoming and just the right size - not too big nor too small. They always keep the ales in tip top condition and have a reasonable choice of beers. This has to be in my top ten of British pubs. I could easily spend all day in here, and then emerge several sheets to the wind. What an AWFUL thought! 10 out of 10.
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Want a modern nice and tidy pub? Dont come here. Want a proper pub with excellent ever changing guest ales and a eclectic customer mix then the Pig is your type of pub. Close ish to the ale trail and where I start it, excellent pub and lovely Justine & Matt, thank you
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Had a great pint of 'Flying Dutchman' in here. Bar staff were friendly and the place definitely had a bit of an alternative vibe to it which I liked. Not the biggest pub so you might have to get there early to get a seat but well worth a visit...
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I remember this place from 25 years ago as The Crown -- and having left the city a long time ago a return visit was a shot in the dark. Not much seems to have changed inside, except the evening lighting is very dim. Sadly they no longer do food in the evening -- how things change over a quarter of a century!
Tried a couple of real ales which were adequately kept.
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Excellent pub, open all day on weekdays and it gets stupidly busy after work on Fridays. Beware the suits standing at the bar in everyone else's way. Adnams Explorer is always good, staff friendly and the average ale price seems a little lower than some Cambridge places. Also food weekday lunchtimes.
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Now has guest beers (although still from Punch) replacing London Pride and Admans Explorer. So two regulars (Black Sheep, Broadside), two guests.
hadda - 20 Apr 2010 17:56 |
The Pig is alive and well. And has had an outside refurb. Well worth a visit.
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No Regis,it hasn't closed down.For some reason they don't open until 7pm on saturday & sundays.A top boozer mind.
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Is this pub closed? It wasn't open Saturday [13th June] at 6 p.m.
Regis - 14 Jun 2009 16:53 |
I used to visit almost daily for about three years, but stopped circa 1999 when a certain rude person got just too snotty for words.
It sounds, from the recent reviews, that the place has refound its character and charm, so I'm really pleased. One of the problems facing pubs these days is keeping people interested, and it sounds like they're doing just that. Glad to hear the beer's still as good as it was.
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Stopped by after a flying visit to Cambridge on business and glad I did. It�s an interesting place, a bit dark and unkempt but full of character. The d�cor is almost exclusively swine based and there�s an automaton pig at one end of the bar raising a glass to it�s patrons. All a bit quirky but it works. Four real ale pumps but only two on, had a decent pint of Adnams. Reasonable bottled collection as well.
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From the outside looks very neglected and decayed- two large blackboards either side of the entrance doors are blank, suggesting a pub with no future. Once inside it's a very different picture, there's a cosy single bar with every surface festooned with various posters; pig ephemera and rows of beer bottles add to the ambience. Lunch menu is basic but appealing, sandwiches and burgers with nothing costing more than �4 or so. 4 real ales on offer- I ordered the broadside but it was off, so I went for the London Pride. This turned out to be the best pint of Pride I've ever tasted; normally I'm not a great fan of this beer, finding it too astringent, I tend to end up with it when the broadside (or ESB) is unavailable, but this particular pint was great. This pub was in CAMRA's 2007 Good Beer Guide, but not the 2008 one; hopefully will reappear ther in future, especially if they work on the exterior
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Looks a little run down from outside but inside is full of character (wooden floors and lots of pig and music related memorabilia) serves good real ale and what looked like reasonably priced food. Beer garden and pool room out the back. Definitely a good stop on the way to/from the station.
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Our first pub yesterday on our real ale crawl around the city. This was in the 2007 GBG but not in the current guide so we wanted to check on it. The pub certainly has character with many pig related themes. Pig's on the hand pulls and on the ceiling and even an animated pig that drinks on the bar. Four hand pumped ales; Adnams Broadside, The Bitter, Explorer and Black Sheep. We all had pints of Black Sheep which all came in branded glasses. The food on offer seemed pretty reasonably priced and popular among the other customers. A pool table was available towards the rear of the pub. Much outside seating in the rear court yard. It was good quality beer and a good start to the day.
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Very much a dark candlelit drinkers pub. Doesn't appear to open at weekend lunchtimes, but well positioned for that last pint before the train home. They were offering some Adnams beers yesterday, and I can report the bar billiards table is still in operation. The barman told me that the demolition plan for the area wasn't going ahead, so this place and the Osborne Arms next door will remain open.
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Is this place still open?. I thought it closed ages ago.
Used to visit a lot and while it was in need of a coat of paint the beer and staff were always good.
Must have a visit again soon and see if it has changed much.
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One of Cambridge's most characterful pubs, certainly outside of the Mill Road area. Beer range is a bit mainstream for Cambridge (Speckled Hen, Broadside etc), and beer is good rather than great, but the sort of local many towns dream of.
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Really nice pub - Good Ale, interesting jazzy music and splendidly dark and dingy. I had a pint of Broadside, which was really good, and refreshingly different to the staple Greene King ales in just about every pub in Cambridge.
Also there's a 'Bar Billiards' table, which I hadn't seen before, and seemed like a really good game, although I'm not certain I understood all of the rules!
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Smashing beer, good staff, and an individual decor theme. If you're looking for a Weatherspoons-type bore, this ain't it.
The music is soulful and jazzy, and adds to the unique atmos.
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the business. sound, dingy drinking pub, music posters all over the walls, candles on the tables (probably), even some real ales. They tried to demolish it but They lost.
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I acn't bewlieve this is n ot in your listings already. Real old fashioned boozer whose main focus is, er, good beer. Also good food. Good clientele mix. Always a laugh. Live music on Wednesday nights and good background music every day. You're missing out if you haven't been yet.
Tim - 30 May 2005 16:01 |
